# Ruby and OpenSSL: no such file to load -- openssl (RuntimeError) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 18, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-openssl-no-such-file-to-load-openssl-runtimeerror/151228 "2008-10-18T15:29:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![reddvinylene](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@reddvinylene](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/reddvinylene)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-openssl-no-such-file-to-load-openssl-runtimeerror/151228/1 "2008-10-18T15:29:10Z")
I’m getting this error on Cygwin when trying to run this tiny little Rails app: ./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:253:in `require\_frameworks’: no such file to load – openssl (RuntimeError) I have both the openssl and openssl-devel packages installed. There’s even an openssl.so in /lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin. I don’t know about libopenssl-ruby though, it only seems to exist for Debian and Ubuntu. Anybody got a clue? Have a nice weekend y’all. ---
**Author:** ![reddvinylene](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@reddvinylene](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/reddvinylene)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-openssl-no-such-file-to-load-openssl-runtimeerror/151228/2 "2008-10-18T16:19:01Z")
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Redd V. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I’m getting this error on Cygwin when trying to run this tiny little Rails app: > > ./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:253:in > `require\_frameworks’: no such file to load – openssl (RuntimeError) > > I have both the openssl and openssl-devel packages installed. There’s > even an openssl.so in /lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin. I don’t know about > libopenssl-ruby though, it only seems to exist for Debian and Ubuntu. > > Anybody got a clue? Have a nice weekend y’all. I just tried compiling/installing openssl-0.9.8i-1 manually, but that didn’t work either. ---
**Author:** ![reddvinylene](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@reddvinylene](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/reddvinylene)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-openssl-no-such-file-to-load-openssl-runtimeerror/151228/3 "2008-10-18T16:26:04Z")
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Redd V. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Anybody got a clue? Have a nice weekend y’all. > > I just tried compiling/installing openssl-0.9.8i-1 manually, but that > didn’t work either. I’m no expert in this arena, but you may need to recompile ruby after installing openssl. HTH, Michael G. ---
**Author:** ![reddvinylene](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@reddvinylene](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/reddvinylene)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-openssl-no-such-file-to-load-openssl-runtimeerror/151228/4 "2008-10-18T21:26:02Z")
> Yeah, good idea, but sorry, it made no difference. Did you (a) compile OpenSSL first and ensured that it worked (b) then tried to compile the OpenSSL extension within the ext/ dir? For me on Linux box this route always works. What is the prefix of both ruby and openssl you use? ---
**Author:** ![reddvinylene](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@reddvinylene](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/reddvinylene)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-openssl-no-such-file-to-load-openssl-runtimeerror/151228/5 "2008-10-19T17:58:10Z")
2008/10/18 Redd V. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > I’m getting this error on Cygwin when trying to run this tiny little Rails app: > > ./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:253:in > `require\_frameworks’: no such file to load – openssl (RuntimeError) > > I have both the openssl and openssl-devel packages installed. There’s > even an openssl.so in /lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin. I don’t know about > libopenssl-ruby though, it only seems to exist for Debian and Ubuntu. > > Anybody got a clue? Have a nice weekend y’all. Maybe you got your environment messed up. Did you try adding /lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin to RUBYLIB? robert ---
**Author:** ![reddvinylene](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@reddvinylene](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/reddvinylene)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-openssl-no-such-file-to-load-openssl-runtimeerror/151228/6 "2008-10-18T16:44:48Z")
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Michael G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I’m no expert in this arena, but you may need to recompile ruby after > installing openssl. Yeah, good idea, but sorry, it made no difference. ---
**Author:** ![reddvinylene](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@reddvinylene](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/reddvinylene)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 9:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-openssl-no-such-file-to-load-openssl-runtimeerror/151228/7 "2008-11-18T09:54:52Z")
Robert K. wrote: > Maybe you got your environment messed up. Did you try adding > /lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin to RUBYLIB? > > robert Robert - thanks for the tip. Setting it up via ‘export RUBYLIB=/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin’ did the trick! Jakub